AS revision for health issues, malaria case study and fact sheet overview.

1. Malaria
Global distribution
Malaria Fact File
• In 2013 there were an estimated 198 million cases of malaria
• 600,000-1 million deaths (2013)
• 437,000 African children died before their 5th birthday due to malaria
• a child dies every minute from malaria
• 3.2 billion people are estimated to be at risk, of whom 1.2 billion are at high risk
How isit spread?
•malariaiscausedby a single-
cell parasite froma genus
knownas Plasmodium
•it istransmittedby Anopheles,
a genusof mosquito
•Anopheles mosquitoesbreedin
water
Who ismost at risk?
•youngchildren
•non-immunepregnantwomen
•people withHIV/AIDS
•foreigners
•people returninghome toa
highriskarea
Preventions
•insecticidetreatedmosquito
bednets
•indoorsprayingwith
insecticides
•antimalarial medicinescanalso
be usedto preventmalaria
•However...
•inareas of highlevelsof
malariatransmissionthere is
insecticideresistance
•resistance toantimalarial
medicinesisarecurring
problem
•10% of income spendonanti-
malariadrugs
•people refusetouse the nets
and don'trepairthemwhen
needed.
Sudanand SouthSudan
BurkinaFaso
SierraLeone
Nigeria
Mozambique